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Publications
Publications
Search our Journal repository for peer-reviewed, scientific publications produced by staff and students of the Institute. The lists include all publications produced since the Institute's inception
Season, Microclimate and Shoreline Disturbance Interactively Shape Bird Functional Diversity
Year: 2026 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: 10.1002/ece3.72901
Ecological Factors Influencing Nest-Site Selection and Colony Size in Village Weavers Ploceus cucullatus
Year: 2026 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: 10.1002/ece3.72840
The Eye of the Chiropterologist: Phenotypic Versus Genotypic Identification of Bats
Year: 2025 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71561
Free-ranging poultry owners’ opinion towards raptors in Plateau State, Nigeria
Year: 2025 . Journal: Ostrich . DOI: 10.2989/00306525.2025.2459654
First detection of Sindbis virus in wild birds in Nigeria
Year: 2025 . Journal: Scientific reports . DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-10556-3
Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving avian communities amid human impact in Nigeria
Year: 2025 . Journal: Conservation Biology . DOI: 10.1111/cobi.70069
Phenological Trends of Palearctic Passerine Bird Species Wintering in The Gambia and Nigeria
Year: 2025 . Journal: African Journal of Ecology . DOI: 10.1111/aje.70108
Recent Reports – Nigeria. Bull ABC Vol 32 No 1:115-116
Year: 2025 . Journal: Bulletin of African Bird Club . DOI:
PERCEPTIONS ON TRADE OF AVIAN BODY PARTS IN MARKETS IN KADUNA METROPOLIS, NIGERIA
Year: 2025 . Journal: Science World . DOI: 10.4314/swj.v20i3.28
Stress-induced antioxidant defense response and body mass loss in microfilariae-infected breeding adult male village weavers (Ploceus cucullatus)
Year: 2025 . Journal: Avian Biology Research . DOI: DOI: 10.1177/17581559251345277
Conservation status of avian and fauna in the Hadejia Wetlands National Park: A Ramsar site assessment
Year: 2025 . Journal: Scientific African . DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2025.e02742
Effects of urbanization on avian diversity and human-nature interactions in tropical environments
Year: 2025 . Journal: PhD Dissertation . DOI: https://ik.imagekit.io/1ak7e44tjrf1/aplori/Thesis_Adewale%20Gboyega%20Awoyemi_20%20Jan%202025_signed_Ai-4ZAuMcD.pdf?updatedAt=1742842242178
Tree species composition and above-ground biomass of a preserved woodland in an agricultural landscape of Southern Nigeria
Year: 2025 . Journal: Forest, Trees and Livelihoods . DOI: 10.1080/14728028.2025.2506423
Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill (Bucorvus abyssinicus)
Year: 2025 . Journal: Birds of the World . DOI: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.noghor1.02.1
How urban green space typologies and attributes influence avifauna in rapidly urbanizing Afrotropical cities
Year: 2025 . Journal: Journal of Environmental Management . DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.127163
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms
Year: 2025 . Journal: Global Ecology and Biogeography . DOI: 10.1111/geb.70021
Key Factors Influencing Breeding Seasons of Insectivorous African Passerines in a Guinea Savanna Habitat, Central Nigeria
Year: 2025 . Journal: Journal of Natural Sciences Research . DOI: https://doi.org/10.7176/JNSR/16-2-02
Vultures on the Brink of Extirpation: Massive Decline in Plateau State, North-Central Nigeria
Year: 2025 . Journal: Journal of Raptor Research . DOI: 10.3356/jrr2468
Comparing migration of Whinchats Saxicola rubetra from the non-breeding grounds in Liberia and Nigeria: Differences due to geography but otherwise very similar
Year: 2025 . Journal: PLOS One . DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0324086
Camera Trapping Uncovers Nesting Ecology and Infant Mortality Causes in the Critically Endangered Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in Ghana
Year: 2025 . Journal: Bird Conservation International . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270925100245
Assessing the ecological consequences of crude oil spills on bird communities in an Afrotropical landscape
Year: 2025 . Journal: Environmental and Sustainability Indicators . DOI: 10.1016/j.indic.2025.100600
Diversity and prevalence of avian haemosporidians across Afrotropical urban and non-urban habitats
Year: 2025 . Journal: Avian Research . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2025.100330
Energetic and oxidative costs of microfilarial infection: evidence for fitness trade-offs in male village weavers of the Amurum Forest Reserve
Year: 2025 . Journal: Wildlife Biology . DOI:
Temporal and environmental drivers of pre-migratory fuel loads in songbirds in West Africa
Year: 2025 . Journal: Proceedings B . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1988
UTILISATION OF CANARIUM SCHWEINFURTHII ENGL. ACROSS COMMUNITIES IN THREE ALTITUDINAL GRADIENTS OF PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA.
Year: 2025 . Journal: Nigerian Journal of Botany . DOI: 10.4314/njbot.v38i2.8
Nigerian Bird Atlas Project (Adhoc Records). Version 1.41. A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI). Metadata dataset
Year: 2025 . Journal: Global Biodiversity Information Facility . DOI: https://doi.org/10.15468/fcp87c
Metagenomic investigations of the gut microbiota of northern and southern Nigerian Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) populations revealed zoonotic pathogens of public health importance
Year: 2025 . Journal: Biologia . DOI: 10.1007/s11756-025-01958-9
VARIATION IN ANIMAL BODY CONDITION BETWEEN TWO ALTITUDES IN A SMALL PASSERINE: NORTHERN RED BISHOP
Year: 2025 . Journal: European Journal of Advanced Research in Biological and Life Sciences . DOI:
Threatened Raptor Species Distribution in Nigeria: Influence of Socio-Cultural Factors and Human–Wildlife Conflicts
Year: 2025 . Journal: Diversity . DOI: 10.3390/d17090602
Jos Plateau Indigobird (Vidua maryae)
Year: 2025 . Journal: Birds of the World . DOI: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.jopind1.02
Diet-manipulated body condition affects onset and speed of moult in common bulbuls in a tropical environment
Year: 2025 . Journal: Journal of Avian Biology . DOI: doi: 10.1002/jav.03522
The number of human-simulated predators influences the escape behaviour of bird species in a West African protected area
Year: 2025 . Journal: Ostrich . DOI: 10.2989/00306525.2025.2510458
Habitat variables influencing bird assemblage patterns across maize and legume fields before and after harvest in West Africa
Year: 2024 . Journal: Wildlife Biology . DOI: doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01282
Impact of forest cover loss on forest dependent avian species in Kenya
Year: 2024 . Journal: Scientific African . DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2024.e02463
Remote sensing for site selection in vegetation survey along a successional gradient in post-industrial vegetation
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70200
Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity
Year: 2024 . Journal: Nature Ecology & Evolution . DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02280-w
Detection of clade 2.3.4.4 highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 viruses in healthy wild birds in the Hadeji-Nguru wetland, Nigeria 2022
Year: 2024 . Journal: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses . DOI: 10.1111/irv.13254
Human-nature interactions in the Afrotropics: Experiential and cognitive connections among urban residents in southern Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ecological Economics . DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108105
Comparing migratory connectivity across species: the importance of considering the pattern of sampling and the processes that lead to connectivity
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ibis . DOI: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13261
Photospot: Aberrant Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer and Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus in Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Bulletin of African Bird Club . DOI:
Description of the downy chicks of Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
Year: 2024 . Journal: Malimbus . DOI:
Avifauna species richness and abundance in relation to habitat features in selected areas of Guinea Savanna zone, Nigeria.
Year: 2024 . Journal: Journal of Research in Forestry, Wildlife and Environment . DOI:
Differences in phenology across three trophic levels betweentwo Afrotropical sites separated by four degrees latitude
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70274
Difference in acoustic responses to urbanization in two African passerines
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ostrich . DOI: https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2024.2310683
The Inhibitory Tendency of Calamagrostis epigejos and Solidago spp. Depends on the Successional Stage in Postindustrial Vegetation
Year: 2024 . Journal: Land Degredation and Development . DOI: doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5348
New National Species Specialist Group in Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Oryx . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324001030
Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity
Year: 2024 . Journal: Nature Sustainability . DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01427-2
A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Federal College of Forestry, Jos Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Adamawa State University Journal of Scientific Research (ADSUJSR) . DOI: ISSN: 2705-1900 (Online); ISSN: 2251-0702
Ecological consequences of urbanization in Afrotropical bird communities: present and future prospects
Year: 2024 . Journal: Frontiers in Conservation Science . DOI: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1503408
New IUCN Species Survival Commission Wild Parrot Specialist Group
Year: 2024 . Journal: Oryx . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324001054
Macrofungal Diversity in Gashaka Gumti National Park
Year: 2024 . Journal: Bima Journal of Science and Technology, . DOI: 10.56892/bima.v8i2B.710
Agro-morphological Growth Response of Acha (FONIO) (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua [kippist] Stapf.) Exposed to Colchicine: Number of Spikes, Spike Length, Number of Seeds per Spike and Grain Yield
Year: 2024 . Journal: Journal Plant Science Phytho pathology . DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.29328/journal.jpsp.1001142
Associations between urbanization and avian communities in the Afrotropics: Evidence from taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity
Year: 2024 . Journal: Global Ecology and Conservation . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03108
Assessment of biometrics and stress indicators of the adult Village Weaver birds (Ploceus cucullatus) during breeding and post-breeding seasons in Jos, Nigeria
Year: 2024 . Journal: Heliyon . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31196
Agro-morphological Growth Response of Acha (Fonio) (Digitaria Exilis and Digitaria Iburua [Kippist] Stapf.) Exposed to Colchicine: Leaf Length, Leaf Width and Leaf Area Index
Year: 2024 . Journal: . DOI: DOI: 10.29328/journal.jpsp.1001134
Urban lawn vegetation structure impact arthropod abundance and cattle egret foraging success
Year: 2024 . Journal: Scientific African . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2024.e02137
Photospot: Mutation in Nigerian Birds
Year: 2024 . Journal: Bulletin of African Bird Club . DOI:
Center for Species Survival Nigeria launches programme of work
Year: 2024 . Journal: Oryx . DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S0030605324001066
Think globally and act locally: Assessing the environmental impacts of the Nigerian threatened native trees project
Year: 2024 . Journal: Societal impacts . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100067
A comparison of the sampling effectiveness of acoustic recorder, camera trap and point count methods in sampling nocturnal birds in Afrotropical landscapes
Year: 2024 . Journal: Ecology and Evolution . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11389
